Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-22
PERFECTED LEGISLATION
Some Bills Passe by the Twentieth
Legislature Of the State at the
Regular Session, 1887.
OFFICIAL COMPILATION.
PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS.

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lature of the state of Texas: That
sections sc, ~, 10, 4S, so, Sc, 81, 62, S.
&c and II, of the above mentioned act
be and they are hereby so amended as to
hereafter read as follows:
Sec. Sc. On the first Saturday in June
of each year the qualified voters of each
school district, at school district meeting
for that purpose, shall elect three trustees
for said district, who shall enter upon
the discharge of their duties upon the
first day of July following, and shall hold
their Offices for one year, and thereafter
until their successors have been elected
or appointed and shall have qualified.
The commissioners court shall appoint
three persons, qualified voters of the
district, to hold such election, who shall
make returns thereof to the county Judge
within five days after such election
shall have been held, and if no election
be held, or If vacancy occur in
the board Of trustees by death OF
otherwise, the county judge shall
at once appoint a trustee, or trustees, as
may be necessary, for the full or uneH-
pired term. No person shall be eligible
to serve as a school trustee who cannot
read aud write, and has not been resi-
dent of the school district for six months
prior to the election held for trustees.
Sec. AZ. The county judge may, at any
time before he apportions the school fund
among the several districts or COmmuni-
ties, transfer q child from one district or
community to another in the same coun-
ty, and in every such case he shall trans
fer the pro rata share of such child
in the school fund to the dis
trict or community in which said
child shall be taught. After the
completion of said apportionment no
transfer shall be made, but all children
within the scholastic age who have not
attended any public school in the state
during the scholastic year shall be al
lowed to attend free of charge any public
school in any district or community in
which such children have acquired a resi-
dence. The county Judge shall also have
authority, on the recommendation of the
school trustees, to consolidate one school
with another in the same district or sd
Joining district, and to transfer money
from one school to another school in the
same district or adjoining district.
Sec. As. County Judges shall be entitled
to the following compensation: For $500
or less of the school fund actually dis
bursed by the County treasurer, $25 shall
be allowed such Judge; for $500 and not
exceeding $1,000 SO disbursed, $50 shall
be allowed; and for each additional $1,000
or fractional part thereof so disbursed, $40
shall be allowed such Judge, and 10 per
cent. on the salary thus allowed shall be
added thereto for postage, stationery and
printing expenses connected with the adj
ministratiOn of the school law. Such
compensation shall be paid to the county
Judge by the county treasurer out of the
public school fund, upon the approval Of
his voucher by the commissioners court,
as follows: On and after the third Mon
days of February and May of each year
the allowances upon disbursements to
those dates respectively shall be paid, and
on or after the third Monday of August
the allowance upon disbursements to
that date and subsequent to the
one last above mentioned, together with
said 10 per cent. additional, shall be
paid; provided, such Judge shall have
made to the State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction all reports required Of him
by law, in respect to matters appertain-
ing to the puolic free schools of his
county; and the Commissioners court
shall not approve, nor shall the County
Treasurer pay, the voucher of any county
Judge for that portion of his compensa-
ton herein thirdly above mentioned until
said Judge shall exhibit to such court and
treasurer an acknowledgment of the re-
ceipt be such State superintendent of
such reports.
Sec. As. Any one desiring to teach a
public free school shall, unless known to
bo ind nnrfif1pofn
from the majority of the trustees of the
school last taught by him or her, or of
the one which he or she desires to teach;
or in case the applicant has not acquired
q residence of six months in the county
wherein he or she desires to teach, then
some other evidence satisfactory to the
county Judge, that the applicant is of
good moral character and Of correct ex-
emplary habits; the county judge shall
thereupon, unless satisfied that some
good cause exists for refusing the GER
tificate hereinafter mentioned, recon-
mend him to the board of examiners for
examination, which said board OF eX-
aminers shall be convened by the county
Judge at stated times, not less than once
q month, provided that there are sppG
cants, for the purpose of examining
applicants for certificates to teach.
Applicants for third grade certif-
Gates shall be examined in or
biography, reading, writing, arithmetic,
geography and English grammar. Appli-
cants for second grade certificates shall
be examined in the branches prescribed
for the third grade, and also in compost
ton, History of the United States, His
tory of Texas, and the theory and prac
tice of teaching. Applicants for the first
grade certificates shall be examined in the
branches prescribed for the third and
second grades, and also in the elementary
branches of algebra, geometry, natural
philosophy and physiology. Such exami-
nation shall be conducted in the English
language, and in writing, and no ap-
plCant shall receive a certificate I'M
less the board of examiners be satisfied
thathe or she is competent to teach the
branches prescribed for the grade of Ger
titicate applied for, in the English Ian
guage The board of examiners shall eX-
anime such applicant as to his or her
competency to teach the branches named
in the preceding clauses, and shall make
s report under oath to the county Judge,
which report shall state who of said
board were present at such examination,
that the applicant WAS examined upon all
the branches of study embraced in the
grade of certificate recommended, and
that such applicant is competent t. teach
and qualified to teach all of such
branches. And the county Judge shall,
if such report be favorable, issue
a certificate of competency to the appli-
can't, according to the grade recommen-
ded by the Hoard of examiners, author
izing his or her employment by the
trustees of the school district or COM
munity in the county in which the same